Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's Finest Hour

This work tells the story of how George Mantello - First Secretary of the El Salvador Consulate in Geneva from 1942 to 1945 - defied censorship to launch a press campaign against the daily deportation of 12,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 10/01/2000
ISBN: 9780815628736
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.22w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2001 pg. 54